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Posted - 2007.08.11 21:00:00 -
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Ran eve on Vista Ultimate x64 fine as. no OS interaction issues to speak of. Though to move My Documents folder default elsewere without busting the phising filter and IE. But yeah its fine as.
Though it will run faster on XP, even if both are tweaked and the XP is the 32bit version. Not huge difference, more todo with faster DX9 on XP than VISTA which is native DX10. Though runs DX9 stuff fine.
Though I realy do reccomend sepperate HD's for OS, Applications, Swap/TEMP/TMP/scratch space. Can add RAID all you like, 2 heads in the right place to begin with not clasing beats having 2 heads doing 2 jobs one at a time in RAID in some situations.
Found 2Gb just fine for a total amount of ram and if you have 4 slot mobo can always add more later when price/needs be.
Of note I did a fresh install, did XP install then Vista as fresh install dual boot, isolated partitions for OS/APPs respectivly.
Heard mixed things on upgrade installs, you can do new install from upgrade disc set btw, google flooded with that nugget.
I would highly reccomend dual boot. Even if you just run VISTA by having 2 installs. One for general and one dedicated for games. Add's so much sanity. That and if its just games, can skip the AV worries as your not touching email or web, least nothing you dont trust.
You GFX card might actualy be one of the rare breed were the manufacturer didn;t just splat out the Nvidia reference design. So might have few tweaks it needs in the driver. So i'd suggest a readup on that. that said if its a 8800 I know there all reference designs, so Nvidia drivers just fine. More laptops were fun and games truely happen, and thats mainly due to the screens and the more customisable offerings nvidia offer.
One thing to remember, if your XP wasn;t 100% stable, wacking vista ontop wont make it any more stable; Maybe a BIOS update or config. many things. Not saying your's wasn't 100% solid, just something to keep inmind. Good test is grab a umbuntu live distro and boot and play with that, also leave the memtest running (selectable as boot option), Vista also has memtest option - but I prefer more options.
Also check the search and index defaults you have on, Vista dont give you much choice on install and as with any OS. You get stuff you need and stuff you have to go add-in.
But as a whole found it a fun OS, UNIX like in its timeslicing response. That and DX10 does fix ALOT of underlying design flaws that grew into DX9. Avoids alot of overheads, and ignore the DX10.1 ****, realy aint nothing anybody bothering with. only just getting DX10 stuff and games wise it offers nothing, that and TBH functinality even though people going current DX10 cards cnt do it, well. Current DX10 cards are kinda programable, so not stressing at all :).
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